ok, then it was my english at fault regarding "turning a corner". Arrinconar does mean "to corner", which is what I meant on that one.
It's funny when the same words don't mean the same things in two languages. My favorite example: "constipado" in spanish means a cold, not constipation. Typical joke implied, no one needs to tell it again:P
Actually, it does. Corner proper is "esquina", but "rincon" is the word you would use for a small place near a corner (on an interior) or so. "Turn a corner" would be "doblar una esquina" (although "doblar" is closer to "fold" than "turn", but that's just the way the phrase is). "To corner" does exist as "arrinconar" (verb form of "rincon")
Then shouldn't they have come back already? Is time already created, our futures predestined, or not? When the time machine is invented and someone changes the past shouldn't we have noticed? Or will just the whole civilization change according to those changes, afterwards? (domino effect) Or will that mean that the past that already existed has changed? Two pasts will have exited but one of them modified to form another one?
How about a plain apache+ssh/whatever authentication server with a form (php or whatever) that calls a script to add an iptables rule? seems simple enough to me...
superuser binaries? At least only root has/sbin in his PATH most of the time, and in general unprivileged users can't do much with the files in/sbin (well, maybe stuff like/sbin/ifconfig _is_ useful, but that info should (is it?) be in/proc anyhow.)/bin and/sbin are separate from/usr/bin and/usr/sbin in that, usually, the/[s]bin programs are "base" programs, and/usr/ stuff isn't essential (i.e./usr can be mounted separate and you can still recover from a system failure using only the / stuff)
you can burn any raw 2352 sectors (including 2048 data bytes plus error correction) but AFAIK you can't alter the P/Q parity of the raw bytes. neither can you burn diferent concentrations since the drive compensates for that by switching lands for pits (since a "1" is a transition and a "0" is a no-transition. Bytes are stored in EFM coding) and with the merge bits.
Subchannels are no use really, although it's just about the RAWest you get (no correction, straight to the CD), but it's a small percentage of the total CD.
So basically, either you burn it or you don't. TO make pictures you'd need altered firmware the very least.
Of course, I am no expert at this, so correct me if i'm wrong.
Burn a DVD (probably better than a CD). Fill the unused portions with some pattern. Now get a marker and paint whatever pattern you want. Read the cd. Note what sectors are corrupted. Re-burn on a DVD of the same brand, plus burn only the uncorrupted sectors (you need a DVD+R for this, to have individual sector writing).
How much resolution will this have?
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Here in spain we have the same thing. Except that a private organization called the SGAE who supposedly distibutes the money among the authors (by popularity, which annoys many people) keeps of it, and insists that downloading is illegal. Plus if an artist says he supports piracy or anything that sounds like it to them, they take his music off the stores. So now we've got all artists 110% against piracy, plus nobody knows what's legal and what isn't.
Damn the music industry. As people have pointed out, music should be free. It's shows/concerts where artists get money.
Not so basically, +R has much better lossless linking support and +RW offers Mt.Rainier support (although i've yet to see it used) and a better technology for modulation of information (wobble instead of pits between tracks. Easier to manufacture too).
Hmm, that reminds me of...
At the speed Yafray is rendering some simple models I have (at Low quality) i'll need one of those for the full picture. And this is on an Athlon64 using everything targeted for x86_64 with optimizations.
The HARDWARE driver has to be in the kernel, since it accesses the AGP port. But the windowing rendering is still in the X server, and the OpenGL stuff is in the GLX libraries.
Since I'm using Gentoo on an AMD64, which even on its stable flavour is more "experimental", if X locks down hard and alt+sysRq+R (unRaw) doesn't let me switch VT, I usually alt+sysRq+E (tErm all tasks) or alt+sysRq+I (kIll all tasks). I then have a simple script that removes all the lockfiles in/var/lib/init.d/started which correspond to actual daemons (faster than calling "zap" for all the initscripts) and then just "rc default". (or rc 5, or init 1; init 5, or whatever you can do on other distros to start everything that's stopped and should be started)
This usually fixes many problems quickly (just the sysrq, login, run the script, and then tell it to start everything again; you can continue using X and since KDE or Gnome will mostly be cached in RAM it will start fast.)
Hmm.. it was a mechanical failure for sure, but it was strange... it started clicking and it damaged some 48 sectors... Enough of my reiserfs tree to kill *exactly*/home/marcansoft in whole (everything went with dummy names to/lost+found, but, to f*ck it up further, contents were "shifted" i.e. I'd play an mp3 and a different one would show up, halfway through, then start another one up until somewhere down the middle). Murphy's law strikes back, as always.
Although the PSU was low quality, it shouldn't have damaged the hard drive. Voltages were realively stable and the failure was some internal overheating that basically killed a track. Tried to repair no to avail (possibly the transistor got damaged in the process and it kept heating up again).
My computer began as an athlon XP 1800+ with an ASUS motherboard and a 40GB HD, 128MB RAM, 52X CD-ROM, GeForce2. Moved in a 16x10x40 old (but working) cd-rw, added 128mb RAM, replaced a failing PSU, replaced the failing HD with a 120GB one (that really scared me-it was new and i've still got 1GB old drives working, why did it fail so early?), replaced graphics card with a GeForce4, replaced the CD-RW with a DVD+/-RW/RAM writer. The newest upgrade: replaced mobo and processor with an MSI and an Athlon64, and added another 256MB ram (for a total of 768MB) and a new Zalman fan (changing architecture or cpu type is probably the worst-case scenario for PC; still, I'm running with the old case and network cards, and the old PSU if it wouldn't have failed.) All this without counting the changes in network cards (previously I had 2, added another one, now I took out one since the new mobo has integrated GbitLAN) and the addition of a BT878 tv capture card.
If I had a mac, most probably 2 months ago I'd still have the old computer, and then I would have bought a new one with everything in it. No, most probably i wouldn't have had the money, since I'm a very bad saver (I would have spent it on something else).
I think the real problem is this: suppose you have two word processors A and B.
Say A has features 1,3,5,6,7 Say B has features 1,2,3,4,8,9
Now someone knows A and does stuff to get around not having 2,4,8,9. But when he sees B, he lacks 5,6,7 although he still uses workarounds for 2,4,8,9 even though he has them available (due to lazyness and/or dumbness)
That user sees A as having 1,3,5,6,7 and when he tries to do the same stuff on B, he only uses 1,3. Conclusion, that user thinks A>B.
This happens with pretty much any software, it's just the problem of knowing something and switching to something else. It just doesn't always work right.
The funniest part of that machine is that it has exactly the same amount of texture RAM as the PS2 has of texture+zbuffer+framebuffer RAM.
That's actually one of the things I most hate of PS2 programming, plus all textures have to be aligned and need to use sizes that are powers of two, and blah blah. You have to squeeze every little byte of VRAM. Indeed, there is even a mode where you store x-R-G-B pixels and I-x-x-x (I=palette index for indexed textures) together in a single 4 bytes as I-R-G-B (i.e. 2 textures in one)
The PlayStation2 might seem like a very powerful machine, but you really have to be careful in some places...
OTOH I've done programming on 1 MIPS PICmicro microcontrollers (assembler) with some 150 bytes of RAM (on the newer models, others had some 80). I haven't done cpu-intensive tasks (except once where I had to do some multiplications and divisons... ARGH no hardware mul/div) but I recommend people to google for a program that played PONG on a TV using one of those chips (clocked at 2.5MIPS this time) doing the raw NTSC/PAL signal with 2 resistors on 2 output pins. It even did text and menus. There is also a tetris. Wow.
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ok, then it was my english at fault regarding "turning a corner". Arrinconar does mean "to corner", which is what I meant on that one.
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It's funny when the same words don't mean the same things in two languages. My favorite example: "constipado" in spanish means a cold, not constipation. Typical joke implied, no one needs to tell it again
Actually, it does. Corner proper is "esquina", but "rincon" is the word you would use for a small place near a corner (on an interior) or so. "Turn a corner" would be "doblar una esquina" (although "doblar" is closer to "fold" than "turn", but that's just the way the phrase is). "To corner" does exist as "arrinconar" (verb form of "rincon")
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I have the slight impression that those cats have *plenty* of food already.
(not under wine, that could find the actual files, and who knows what the scanner does)
Just setup your wine config to allow access to a fake windows root as C:\ and kill all other drives.
Then shouldn't they have come back already? Is time already created, our futures predestined, or not? When the time machine is invented and someone changes the past shouldn't we have noticed? Or will just the whole civilization change according to those changes, afterwards? (domino effect) Or will that mean that the past that already existed has changed? Two pasts will have exited but one of them modified to form another one?
Timetravel is downright confusing.
having your apache either notify a daemon or send the ip address to a sudo script that does basic sanity checks before adding the rule
:-)
no, i'm not THAT crazy to run my php scripts as root
How about a plain apache+ssh/whatever authentication server with a form (php or whatever) that calls a script to add an iptables rule? seems simple enough to me...
superuser binaries? At least only root has /sbin in his PATH most of the time, and in general unprivileged users can't do much with the files in /sbin (well, maybe stuff like /sbin/ifconfig _is_ useful, but that info should (is it?) be in /proc anyhow.) /bin and /sbin are separate from /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in that, usually, the /[s]bin programs are "base" programs, and /usr/ stuff isn't essential (i.e. /usr can be mounted separate and you can still recover from a system failure using only the / stuff)
you can burn any raw 2352 sectors (including 2048 data bytes plus error correction) but AFAIK you can't alter the P/Q parity of the raw bytes. neither can you burn diferent concentrations since the drive compensates for that by switching lands for pits (since a "1" is a transition and a "0" is a no-transition. Bytes are stored in EFM coding) and with the merge bits.
Subchannels are no use really, although it's just about the RAWest you get (no correction, straight to the CD), but it's a small percentage of the total CD.
So basically, either you burn it or you don't. TO make pictures you'd need altered firmware the very least.
Of course, I am no expert at this, so correct me if i'm wrong.
Will this work?
Burn a DVD (probably better than a CD). Fill the unused portions with some pattern. Now get a marker and paint whatever pattern you want. Read the cd. Note what sectors are corrupted. Re-burn on a DVD of the same brand, plus burn only the uncorrupted sectors (you need a DVD+R for this, to have individual sector writing).
How much resolution will this have?
Here in spain we have the same thing. Except that a private organization called the SGAE who supposedly distibutes the money among the authors (by popularity, which annoys many people) keeps of it, and insists that downloading is illegal. Plus if an artist says he supports piracy or anything that sounds like it to them, they take his music off the stores. So now we've got all artists 110% against piracy, plus nobody knows what's legal and what isn't.
Damn the music industry. As people have pointed out, music should be free. It's shows/concerts where artists get money.
Until doublespeed copying decks became available :)
I think building a Brainfuck interpreter out of this shouldn't bee too difficult.
Not so basically, +R has much better lossless linking support and +RW offers Mt.Rainier support (although i've yet to see it used) and a better technology for modulation of information (wobble instead of pits between tracks. Easier to manufacture too).
Otherwise, they are read the same way.
Hmm, that reminds me of... At the speed Yafray is rendering some simple models I have (at Low quality) i'll need one of those for the full picture. And this is on an Athlon64 using everything targeted for x86_64 with optimizations.
The HARDWARE driver has to be in the kernel, since it accesses the AGP port. But the windowing rendering is still in the X server, and the OpenGL stuff is in the GLX libraries.
the smallest spike kills a laser diode. So no, probably either it kills the power supply or it kills the diode.
Kinda like spanish - Union Europea, but the US is usually written EE.UU. (Estados Unidos; double because of the plural form.)
BTW, Europe in Spanish is Europa.
Since I'm using Gentoo on an AMD64, which even on its stable flavour is more "experimental", if X locks down hard and alt+sysRq+R (unRaw) doesn't let me switch VT, I usually alt+sysRq+E (tErm all tasks) or alt+sysRq+I (kIll all tasks). /var/lib/init.d/started which correspond to actual daemons (faster than calling "zap" for all the initscripts) and then just "rc default". (or rc 5, or init 1; init 5, or whatever you can do on other distros to start everything that's stopped and should be started)
I then have a simple script that removes all the lockfiles in
This usually fixes many problems quickly (just the sysrq, login, run the script, and then tell it to start everything again; you can continue using X and since KDE or Gnome will mostly be cached in RAM it will start fast.)
Hmm.. it was a mechanical failure for sure, but it was strange... it started clicking and it damaged some 48 sectors... Enough of my reiserfs tree to kill *exactly* /home/marcansoft in whole (everything went with dummy names to /lost+found, but, to f*ck it up further, contents were "shifted" i.e. I'd play an mp3 and a different one would show up, halfway through, then start another one up until somewhere down the middle). Murphy's law strikes back, as always.
Although the PSU was low quality, it shouldn't have damaged the hard drive. Voltages were realively stable and the failure was some internal overheating that basically killed a track. Tried to repair no to avail (possibly the transistor got damaged in the process and it kept heating up again).
PC upgradability is also a big win for me.
My computer began as an athlon XP 1800+ with an ASUS motherboard and a 40GB HD, 128MB RAM, 52X CD-ROM, GeForce2. Moved in a 16x10x40 old (but working) cd-rw, added 128mb RAM, replaced a failing PSU, replaced the failing HD with a 120GB one (that really scared me-it was new and i've still got 1GB old drives working, why did it fail so early?), replaced graphics card with a GeForce4, replaced the CD-RW with a DVD+/-RW/RAM writer. The newest upgrade: replaced mobo and processor with an MSI and an Athlon64, and added another 256MB ram (for a total of 768MB) and a new Zalman fan (changing architecture or cpu type is probably the worst-case scenario for PC; still, I'm running with the old case and network cards, and the old PSU if it wouldn't have failed.) All this without counting the changes in network cards (previously I had 2, added another one, now I took out one since the new mobo has integrated GbitLAN) and the addition of a BT878 tv capture card.
If I had a mac, most probably 2 months ago I'd still have the old computer, and then I would have bought a new one with everything in it. No, most probably i wouldn't have had the money, since I'm a very bad saver (I would have spent it on something else).
What does "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/opengl" do?
Hmm... what about a Brainfuck sim?
I think the real problem is this: suppose you have two word processors A and B.
Say A has features 1,3,5,6,7
Say B has features 1,2,3,4,8,9
Now someone knows A and does stuff to get around not having 2,4,8,9. But when he sees B, he lacks 5,6,7 although he still uses workarounds for 2,4,8,9 even though he has them available (due to lazyness and/or dumbness)
That user sees A as having 1,3,5,6,7 and when he tries to do the same stuff on B, he only uses 1,3. Conclusion, that user thinks A>B.
This happens with pretty much any software, it's just the problem of knowing something and switching to something else. It just doesn't always work right.
The funniest part of that machine is that it has exactly the same amount of texture RAM as the PS2 has of texture+zbuffer+framebuffer RAM.
That's actually one of the things I most hate of PS2 programming, plus all textures have to be aligned and need to use sizes that are powers of two, and blah blah. You have to squeeze every little byte of VRAM. Indeed, there is even a mode where you store x-R-G-B pixels and I-x-x-x (I=palette index for indexed textures) together in a single 4 bytes as I-R-G-B (i.e. 2 textures in one)
The PlayStation2 might seem like a very powerful machine, but you really have to be careful in some places...
OTOH I've done programming on 1 MIPS PICmicro microcontrollers (assembler) with some 150 bytes of RAM (on the newer models, others had some 80). I haven't done cpu-intensive tasks (except once where I had to do some multiplications and divisons... ARGH no hardware mul/div) but I recommend people to google for a program that played PONG on a TV using one of those chips (clocked at 2.5MIPS this time) doing the raw NTSC/PAL signal with 2 resistors on 2 output pins. It even did text and menus. There is also a tetris. Wow.